This time it’s off site, with attendees (24) from multiple organizations/companies. So this morning we’re supposed to go around the room and ‘quickly’ introduce ourselves, right? All of us do except one woman, who I think gave her entire history back to kindergarten…
Part of the training is group gropes… er… ‘team’ exercises, with ‘short’ outbriefs. The instructor cautions that no one is to take anything personal about either decisions or questions during this course.
So we do the first exercise, and one from each group gets up and gives their little (4 slide) outbrief, and then questions are allowed from the floor on the justification for their decisions…
Everything was going fine, then this woman got up as the ‘speaker’ for her group. She talked, and talked, and justified, and more justification (like about 10 slides), since they made a choice NO ONE else made. She finally ran down and the questioning started. An older gent from another group asked a rather pointed question as to how they had missed some ‘key’ information; her answer didn’t
‘answer’ the question, so he asked it again.
She got ‘offended’ that he had the temerity to ask the question again, and he jumped right back at her that ‘he’ was offended that she was offended by a simple question and had wasted so much class time! The instructor tried to play peacemaker, but she wasn’t having any of it, and went off on (in order), men, the instructor, the class, conservatives, and “old farts” that should be sitting in rockers somewhere…
I just got up and took a break…
Came back about 15 minutes later, and leaned over to one of my female co-workers at another table and asked who won?
Her comment, “WE lost, and she’s trying to drag all of us (females) down with her.”
Sigh, some people just need to GET OVER themselves…
In other ‘civility’ issues, we have:
On Sunday, Ellen Barkin expressed her hope that Tropical Storm Isaac would smash up the Republican National Convention in Tampa and drown all its delegates.
She retweeted the message of one of her followers that read: “C’mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean! #RNC ” Barkin did not express any disagreement in her retweet.
Samuel L. Jackson on Monday tweeted it was “unfair” that Tropical Storm Isaac had spared the GOP convention in Tampa and appeared to be heading for New Orleans.
Jackson said in a profanity-filled tweet that he was “not understanding God’s plan” given the fact that the storm was not disrupting the Republican gathering.
“Unfair s—,” the Oscar-nominated actor known for his colorful language said on Twitter.
“GOP spared by Isaac! NOLA prolly f—– again!”
Article HERE…
Comments??? Crickets… as usual… If anybody did, they’d be RACIST… sigh
And this one from the PCism run amok…
A Nebraska school district asked a deaf preschooler to change his sign language name because they believe the hand motion he used looked like he was shooting a gun.
The family of 3-year-old Hunter Spanjer said that their deaf son’s sign gesture violates the Grand Island Public Schools weapons policy.
“He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,” Brian Spanjer, Hunter’s father, told Nebraska based news channel KOLN. “It’s a symbol. It’s an actual sign, a registered sign, through (Signing Exact English).”
The kid is THREE !@&( YEARS OLD! Let him ‘keep his own damn name!!!
Agirl has an excellent post up HERE on this one, with additional information from her own family!
Sigh…